The Section 508 Best Practices Webinar Series provides helpful informati
on and best practices for federal agencies in meeting their obligations und
er Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act which ensures access to electronic
and information technology in the federal sector. This webinar series is m
ade available by the Accessibility Committee of the CIO Council in partners
hip with the U.S. Access Board and eFedLink.

This session will o
ffer a case study of how one agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Huma
n Services (HHS), incorporates accessibility into the process of engineerin
g and deploying large systems. Mark D. Urban, HHS Program Team Co-Chair and
CDC Section 508 Coordinator, will describe how HHS ensures accessibility f
rom the first idea until the system is retired. He will discuss how to inte
grate Section 508 into the established process for development and will add
ress challenges of the iterative development process and the tradeoffs with
large customizable off-the-shelf software packages.